Name a champ and ill tell you why they aren't played in competitive

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Make those salty Yasuo haters even saltier

Yasuo top just has way to many counters know and Its a risky pick since you have to have at least 1 other champion who can have a knockup but then other lanes can play to that. It's a high risk high reward in my opinion. Yasuo just isnt worth the risk because he is always going to try to get that knockup but it is hard to follow up because he is very much an on impulse champion which can be hard to play with with other players becasue they just might not know if youre gonna take that ult

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It makes me sad but xerath just will get beat to a pulp by any ap mage with mobility. If he doesnt lane his E its gonna be hard to land q and w. And depending on who your facing i hope there stunned cause his ult shots arent fast enough. Dont get me wrong xerath can dominate teamfights mid and late game but he just has no mobility and you need early pressure.

Because you get in trouble from sitting in base and blasting the enemy.

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I don't know about Vi, but malphite is mostly just for his ult. His other abilities are lackluster in pro play, so he is only good for a couple seconds in team fights and not super great outside of that.

Diana is just 100% engage. She has zero disengage. A squishy AP burst mage needs something to stay alive, and her shield just isn't enough to compensate for the fact that she can't realistically disengage.

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I was looking at some figures recently on rarely used champs however main wondering are: : Due to when CoC came out and being a generally good jungler. : Was used a fair bit Spring 2016, hardly ever since. Should have been good during the Lethality period... right? : Will she ever be?

Diana's extremely fun to play, but considering how wether or not she lands a skillshot dictates her actions + no escape gotta say nope 2 that

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i saw Liss get picked once in MSI if that helps. I honestly don't know why noct isn't a common pick. Taking away vision from your enemies seems to be very versatile and effective to me. My only guess is Supports have ways to survive his ult Or maybe people just like these champs

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Ivern is played a lot. I'm saying like champs that aren't played really. He is.

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Sounds fun.

Shyvana can just be countered although they just reworked her her dragon form still is not all that useful since other than that she really has no gap closer and its hard to build her tanky and still be very effective against high level adc's who can kite

Teemo just isn't viable. They will just pick a bust ap mid or a swain or ap tank like champ for top rendering teemo useless

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Janna.

Sadly for the most part Karma and Nami who are very similar to Janna just fir teams better. Karma offers a stronger laning phase and nami has a very good ult and is able to get multiple enemys trapped in one bubble, they both just are more reliable and as a result are most common supports

Very mana-heavy and has kinda-high cool downs early, meaning she is easy to abuse in lane while she is on cooldown. She relies on hitting her q too much. If they get cleanse as a summoner spell, she won't be able to land her ult because they can just dodge q or cleanse out of it.

And other mages offer better CC or more reliable damage with less abuse-able laning phases.

Plus an immobile mage with easy-to-dodge crowd control on high cooldown is just a recipe for easy ganks.

Illaoi is actually super useless. Like she has no real engage no real CC. She just relies on uncoordinated teams running into her.

Also played properly Trundle and Fiora will beat her (or any ranged top). Trundle/Fiora/Singed are actually played in competitive it's just that often times you need a tank for the team, and Jayce brings more as a carry top with siege potential.

Kled is also played competitively. His ult is nice but he's easier to focus down when he loses Skarl in a coordinated team.

Cho/Sion - too telegraphed Yi/Voli - kited too hard. Yi will get CCed and focused in a teamfight and blow up.

Zed is actually played too. Sometimes you want CC and an AP heavy mid (rumbles the only real AP too, maybe ziggs adc).

Kled, Singed, Fiora, Zed, and Trundle all saw pro play this split xD

90% of his power is in a single skill-shot, his q. His w knock-up is really only a follow-up on his q, so not useful if you didn't hit the q. His e speed-boost is really only positioning for his q, so again, mostly used for his q. And his ult is also mostly a follow-up on his q.

In competitive, they will be aware of his strengths and simply stand behind minions and not let him use his e to position himself for a q. Also, missing a q looses 100% of his lane pressure while it is on cooldown. Most other supports have at least 2 other abilities to still do something if they mess up one ability. Blitz can literally not react to anything if he misses his q and they engage, and pros will abuse that.

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This has been fun reading. Here is my contribution. Not one of my favs to play, but I'm surprised he isn't used more in pro play As am I. BLitzcrank sadly is looked at in pro play as a less useful Thresh. The most common supports Karma and Nami off lane pressure although they are a bit less threatening than blitz crank they have a lot more sustain. If he was ever seen in pro play I'd imagine he'd just be roaming mid for a lot of the game. Sad we never see him.

They were only just released xD

They wait like 2 weeks until new champs and reworked champs can go into competitive.

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INTdred got nerfed way too hard. She was accidentally picked in the msi and they basically had to re-do champ select

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Let's keep this going. I got to play some this weekend and really liked this champion. I could see how, in the hands of a professional, he could be a beast in top lane and team fights. Why do we not see him in the LCS?

Nasus just takes to long too get going. And considering the fact he has no escape/GP and can get kited he's just too weak. Look on the bright side His brother will uphold his legacy

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Hold on, I've got this one...

Oh wait... Kled IS played in competitive. Hmmmm....

How about ?

Shit, she's played too. I'm bad at this!

AH HA! !

Man, I suck at this.

why not try these champs ?